Screening method and automatic analysis system for detecting bone deformation using foot pressure distributions and images of a heel

Abstract

Recently, the gait disorder that originates in foot region abnormality such as knock-knees, flat-foots and loss of arch becomes a social problem. Leaving of the foot region abnormality might change into the serious symptom, such as of the skeletal deformity and hallux valgus. However, the technique for detecting the foot region abnormality at the early stage has not been developed. We analyze the backward picture of the heel of the standing position to detect the abnormality. In the image analysis, we investigate abnormality foot inclination for calcaneus angle, low leg angle, and LHA. In this paper, the automatic analysis program is developed based on the measurement model (Fig.1).